Author Archives: Bill

We Developed the concept of Castle Bagging a few years ago whilst visiting friends. We had booked a week in a villa just outside Carcassonne in the south of France. The walled city is in the area of the Cathar region, which I still know very little about, but we did know there some CatharContinue reading “Castle Bagging”

Had a couple of days exploring Brighton. After quite a big breakfast, we made our way across to the I360, the British Airways tower for a flight up to 130m, about 450 feet. On the way to the tower, we walked past an op3n air exhibition by the Brighton & Hove Camera Club. I haveContinue reading “Brighton”

Last nights post was about photography, specifically still photography. Tonight, I like to write about moving pictures. Very briefly, I’m going to return to the 1970s. If you thought still photography was expensive, then 50ft of super 8 giving about three minutes of moving pictures cost I reckon about £5 that is I admit aContinue reading “Film & Video”

I have found something very frustrating with WordPress.  There appears to be a key sequence involving the backslash and delete key, which when pressed together, deletes the content of the current draft post, completely, no recovery!  I’d written two paragraphs about the Rufus Ride, and it all disappeared. Most frustrating.  Anyhow, today I was onContinue reading “The 2019 Rufus Ride”

Weekends tend to be a bit difficult for doing posts. The Monday-Friday routine is well established, the weekend’s less so in order that we can do what we want, within reason of course. Today for example, we had a pleasant wander around and in to town and then we drove to a garden centre justContinue reading “Saturday”

I have a Facebook account. I send this to my Facebook page Gosport as I see it. Inevitably, there will be some duplication, if you see both posts sorry about that. I looked out the window at 0540, my usual time it had been raining but didn’t look as though it was. By the timeContinue reading “Facebook”

The Isle of Wight Radio Society, Thursday Night me runs from 2000-2100 every Thursday. Evening, This is an activity I do, because I enjoy it. Hosted through GB3IW. We either try and talk about a different activity every week, sometimes we have topic, or we have “natter night” where topics can a bit of aContinue reading “IoWRS TNN”

I think I’m what they call a beginner or starter I like starting things, but then I have difficulty continuing or finishing. To give you some examples; We bought a book, do the South Downs way in 20 walks. We’ll do that we both said. One walk a month, it’ll take time, but it’ll beContinue reading “Locality – I am going to…”